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Letters


Letters


Transcendental in Trentham • No Problem? • Infantile Art • Improbably Philosophy • Thoughts On Dennett • Further Shots At Freedom • The Music of Understanding


Transcendental in Trentham


DEAR EDITOR: You might be pleased to know that Philosophy Now has reached the little township of Trentham, 90 km NWof Melbourne, Australia. The Paranoia issue appeared here a fortnight ago on the local newsstand, followed this week by the Animals and Philosophy issue.


I would like to comment on Massimo Pigliucci’s ‘A Transcendental Philosophy of Science?’ in Issue 66, for which I took the trouble to contact the group attacked by Pigliucci and referred to by Hans Peter Rickman (Letters, 67) as “obscure” and seemingly “linked only to Kant by the word ‘transcendental’.”


Prof Dr Gertrudis Van De Vijver, Department of Philosophy and Moral Science, University of Ghent, Belgium, kindly sent me two articles written by herself and colleagues. One is from the Research Unit: ‘Evolution and Complexity: Reflecting on Complexity of Biological Systems: Kant and Beyond’.


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